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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 2018 | VOL. 59 IS. 20 | FREE
Workers protest
inadequate funding
CSUN MAINTENANCE workers
marched to the front of the Oviatt
Library at 11:30 a.m. on Jan. 30 toting
signs that read "SAFE CAMPUS
FAIR PLAY" and "OVERWORKED
& UNDERPAID" in an effort to shed
light on threats posed to students by
years of negligence of campus facil-ities
and demand better wages for
maintenance workers.
Christopher Rooney, a metal worker
of 28 years at CSUN and the chief union
steward for Teamsters on campus,
helped spearhead the protest. "We're
out here protesting because we are in
the middle of negotiating salary and
benefi ts with the chancellor's offi ce and
we don't think that they are giving us a
fair shake," said Rooney.
Demonstrations took place across
California State campuses and were
organized by Teamsters Local 2010,
a union that represents over 1100
plumbers, electricians, carpenters
and other skilled trades CSU work-ers.
The union is currently in wage
reopener negotiations with the CSU.
Workers take issue with lack of
investment in upgrading or replac-ing
aging campus infrastructure that
often causes interruptions in education
services and creates unsafe environ-ments
for faculty and staff members.
The CSU deferred a $2.6 billion main-tenance
backlog and acknowledged
the complications of doing so, calling
the infrastructure on many campuses
"obsolete." The backlog has been
reduced to $2 billion in recent years
according to the CSU website's 2017-18
support budget. Still, the CSU esti-mates
that the backlog continues to
grow by $143 million every year.
Reggie Castro, a worker of 34 years
at CSUN's Physical Plant Manage-ment,
also helped lead the protests.
Castro says he is frustrated with con-tinued
installation of new buildings
even in the face of ailing infrastruc-ture
and an inadequately staffed
maintenance workforce.
"We need Chancellor White to
take a look at what is going on here
and to get us more staff, get us better
wages and to help us out," said Castro.
He was also out to protest the for-feiting
of campus maintenance work
to contractors. "We just let go of two
painters...[yet] we've got contractors,
over in some of the buildings, paint-ing...
and it's like well if you can pay
these guys why can't you pay our
guys. We're skilled trades workers. We
do a much better job than the outside
contractors," he added.
Protesters then marched from the
Oviatt Library to University Hall where
the protest ended, presumably to garner
the attention of President Harrison.
The protest was swift, concluding
within 30 minutes, as it was during
the workers' lunch break. Extending
the protest past their lunch break
would have been considered a strike
and a breach of their work contract.
ORLANDO MAYORQUIN
“NOW” EDITOR
t @ORLANDODMAYO
KELCEY HENDERSON /THE SUNDIAL
Campus maintenance workers gather behind the Oviatt Library before march-ing
through campus in protest of understaffing and inadequate funding.
CSU delays tuition increase vote CSUN club
reaches new
turning point
DESPITE THE handful of political
groups on campus, there is a notice-able
absence of conservative clubs at
CSUN. In fact, at the moment, there
is only one sanctioned right-leaning
club on campus: Turning Point USA.
Turning Point USA is a non-profi t
organization founded in 2012 by
Charlie Kirk. While Turning Point
USA (TPUSA) is a non-partisan
organization, its basis is rooted in
promoting conservative principles
such as free markets and limited gov-ernments.
According to its website,
Turning Point USA has "a presence on
over 1,000 college campuses nation-wide".
The organization is known for
its controversial "Professor Watch-list",
which catalogs professors across
the country it believes to "discrimi-nate
against conservative students."
For CSUN, Turning Point USA
is a new addition, as the club was
offi cially approved by the university
this past fall semester. The chap-ter's
president, Claire Alison, feels
like TPUSA's establishment could
promote more participation among
conservative students on campus.
"A lot of students don't like
saying that they're conservative,
" said Alison, a senior majoring in
History. "We've received an over-whelmingly
positive response toward
[TPUSA] from students."
Not every campus has been as
receptive to TPUSA as CSUN. In 2016,
Drake University denied a permit
request for its TPUSA chapter to
become a formally recognized stu-dent
organization . In 2017, a petition
for a TPUSA chapter at Santa Clara
University was rejected by the col-lege's
student senate.
While TPUSA CSUN's club regis-tration
has gone through relatively
smoothly compared to the chapter's
counterparts at Santa Clara and Drake
University, it has faced some dissent
from the university. According to
Alison, TPUSA's CSUN chapter faced
backlash from the university during
its application process due to some
of their tabling signs. In particular,
CSUN considered the club's "socialism
sucks" sign as potentially offensive.
Despite the university's con-cerns,
students, both proponents
and opponents of TPUSA's positions,
have remained civilized, according
to Alison. Rather than drawing con-frontation,
TPUSA's CSUN arrival
has so far only provoked constructive
dialog between opposing viewpoints.
During the tabling process, Alison
has only witnessed several heated,
but amicable debates between club
members and liberal students.
Osje Peña, a writer for conservative
news outlet "Campus Reform" and a
member of TPUSA's CSUN chapter,
feels that these debates provided by the
club have helped bridge a gap between
conservative and liberal students.
"We don't have to agree on every-thing,
but as long as we fi nd common
SEE TURNING POINT PAGE 3
TANDY LAU
REPORTER
t @DAILYSUNDIAL
THE PROPOSED $228 tuition increase will not
be voted on until May at the latest, according to a
statement from CSU Chancellor Timothy White. If
passed, this will be the third consecutiveof hiked
tuition cost.
The increase would provide $70 million in
operating revenue and $35 million to State Uni-versity
Grants, according to the Board of Trustees
Committee of Finance.
White stated in the CSU Board of Trustees
budget meeting on Wednesday that “60 percent of
students won’t be affected” by the $228 increase,
affordability won’t be an issue.
One in four CSU students suffer from food inse-curities
and one in 10 suffer from homelessness,
according to a report from Equity Interrupted
conducted by the California Facility Association.
Gabriel Lozano, a 23-year-old organizer for
Students for Quality of Education (SQE) at Cal
Poly Pomona, said that hunger issues are affecting
campuses all over the state.
“I have had friends that have literally been on
the verge of homelessness and I have had other
friends who decided not to go to college for this
reason because of the increases,” Lozano said.
“The tuition costs are just going to get higher and
higher and it won’t stop.”
CSU Board members and California govern-ment
offi cials have been at odds over the proposed
budget for 2018-19. While the Board of Trustees
requested $263 million, Governor Jerry Brown’s
budget proposal allocated $92 million to the CSU.
The more than $100 million gap according
to White is the reason why tuition increase is
needed.
Board member Romey Sabalius proposed to
decrease tuition by two percent if the state gov-ernment
has a surplus.
“It would give our government legislatures a
clear idea and vision of how to budget their assets
and allocations to the CSU,” Sabalius said. “It
would send a clear message on where the board
the trustees lie.”
While the jockeying over the CSU budget con-tinues
at the capitol in Sacramento, sociology
professor Kevin Wehr of Sacramento State, says
that he had to put in a basic needs notice in his
syllabus for students who are effected by food
insecurity or homelessness.
“I felt I had to put this notice in because of
what I have seen in the classroom,” Wehr said. “I
had a brilliant student whose engagement fell off
because he was falling asleep in class. It turned
out that he was having trouble feeding himself.”
Though tuition increase seems to be on the
horizon, a delay in the vote has allowed the CSU to
fi nalize its budget before making a fi nal decision.
“We are extremely glad that the board is
choosing to put off its vote,” Wehr said. “But what
we should really be talking about is a tuition cut,
not a tuition increase.”
ETHAN HANSON/ THE SUNDIAL
The CSU Board of Trustees met in Long Beach on Jan. 30.
ETHAN HANSON
SPORTS EDITOR
t @ETHANAHANSON

HTTP://SUNDIAL.NEWS
csunsundial
@dailysundial
@thesundial
The Sundial
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 2018 | VOL. 59 IS. 20 | FREE
Workers protest
inadequate funding
CSUN MAINTENANCE workers
marched to the front of the Oviatt
Library at 11:30 a.m. on Jan. 30 toting
signs that read "SAFE CAMPUS
FAIR PLAY" and "OVERWORKED
& UNDERPAID" in an effort to shed
light on threats posed to students by
years of negligence of campus facil-ities
and demand better wages for
maintenance workers.
Christopher Rooney, a metal worker
of 28 years at CSUN and the chief union
steward for Teamsters on campus,
helped spearhead the protest. "We're
out here protesting because we are in
the middle of negotiating salary and
benefi ts with the chancellor's offi ce and
we don't think that they are giving us a
fair shake," said Rooney.
Demonstrations took place across
California State campuses and were
organized by Teamsters Local 2010,
a union that represents over 1100
plumbers, electricians, carpenters
and other skilled trades CSU work-ers.
The union is currently in wage
reopener negotiations with the CSU.
Workers take issue with lack of
investment in upgrading or replac-ing
aging campus infrastructure that
often causes interruptions in education
services and creates unsafe environ-ments
for faculty and staff members.
The CSU deferred a $2.6 billion main-tenance
backlog and acknowledged
the complications of doing so, calling
the infrastructure on many campuses
"obsolete." The backlog has been
reduced to $2 billion in recent years
according to the CSU website's 2017-18
support budget. Still, the CSU esti-mates
that the backlog continues to
grow by $143 million every year.
Reggie Castro, a worker of 34 years
at CSUN's Physical Plant Manage-ment,
also helped lead the protests.
Castro says he is frustrated with con-tinued
installation of new buildings
even in the face of ailing infrastruc-ture
and an inadequately staffed
maintenance workforce.
"We need Chancellor White to
take a look at what is going on here
and to get us more staff, get us better
wages and to help us out," said Castro.
He was also out to protest the for-feiting
of campus maintenance work
to contractors. "We just let go of two
painters...[yet] we've got contractors,
over in some of the buildings, paint-ing...
and it's like well if you can pay
these guys why can't you pay our
guys. We're skilled trades workers. We
do a much better job than the outside
contractors," he added.
Protesters then marched from the
Oviatt Library to University Hall where
the protest ended, presumably to garner
the attention of President Harrison.
The protest was swift, concluding
within 30 minutes, as it was during
the workers' lunch break. Extending
the protest past their lunch break
would have been considered a strike
and a breach of their work contract.
ORLANDO MAYORQUIN
“NOW” EDITOR
t @ORLANDODMAYO
KELCEY HENDERSON /THE SUNDIAL
Campus maintenance workers gather behind the Oviatt Library before march-ing
through campus in protest of understaffing and inadequate funding.
CSU delays tuition increase vote CSUN club
reaches new
turning point
DESPITE THE handful of political
groups on campus, there is a notice-able
absence of conservative clubs at
CSUN. In fact, at the moment, there
is only one sanctioned right-leaning
club on campus: Turning Point USA.
Turning Point USA is a non-profi t
organization founded in 2012 by
Charlie Kirk. While Turning Point
USA (TPUSA) is a non-partisan
organization, its basis is rooted in
promoting conservative principles
such as free markets and limited gov-ernments.
According to its website,
Turning Point USA has "a presence on
over 1,000 college campuses nation-wide".
The organization is known for
its controversial "Professor Watch-list",
which catalogs professors across
the country it believes to "discrimi-nate
against conservative students."
For CSUN, Turning Point USA
is a new addition, as the club was
offi cially approved by the university
this past fall semester. The chap-ter's
president, Claire Alison, feels
like TPUSA's establishment could
promote more participation among
conservative students on campus.
"A lot of students don't like
saying that they're conservative,
" said Alison, a senior majoring in
History. "We've received an over-whelmingly
positive response toward
[TPUSA] from students."
Not every campus has been as
receptive to TPUSA as CSUN. In 2016,
Drake University denied a permit
request for its TPUSA chapter to
become a formally recognized stu-dent
organization . In 2017, a petition
for a TPUSA chapter at Santa Clara
University was rejected by the col-lege's
student senate.
While TPUSA CSUN's club regis-tration
has gone through relatively
smoothly compared to the chapter's
counterparts at Santa Clara and Drake
University, it has faced some dissent
from the university. According to
Alison, TPUSA's CSUN chapter faced
backlash from the university during
its application process due to some
of their tabling signs. In particular,
CSUN considered the club's "socialism
sucks" sign as potentially offensive.
Despite the university's con-cerns,
students, both proponents
and opponents of TPUSA's positions,
have remained civilized, according
to Alison. Rather than drawing con-frontation,
TPUSA's CSUN arrival
has so far only provoked constructive
dialog between opposing viewpoints.
During the tabling process, Alison
has only witnessed several heated,
but amicable debates between club
members and liberal students.
Osje Peña, a writer for conservative
news outlet "Campus Reform" and a
member of TPUSA's CSUN chapter,
feels that these debates provided by the
club have helped bridge a gap between
conservative and liberal students.
"We don't have to agree on every-thing,
but as long as we fi nd common
SEE TURNING POINT PAGE 3
TANDY LAU
REPORTER
t @DAILYSUNDIAL
THE PROPOSED $228 tuition increase will not
be voted on until May at the latest, according to a
statement from CSU Chancellor Timothy White. If
passed, this will be the third consecutiveof hiked
tuition cost.
The increase would provide $70 million in
operating revenue and $35 million to State Uni-versity
Grants, according to the Board of Trustees
Committee of Finance.
White stated in the CSU Board of Trustees
budget meeting on Wednesday that “60 percent of
students won’t be affected” by the $228 increase,
affordability won’t be an issue.
One in four CSU students suffer from food inse-curities
and one in 10 suffer from homelessness,
according to a report from Equity Interrupted
conducted by the California Facility Association.
Gabriel Lozano, a 23-year-old organizer for
Students for Quality of Education (SQE) at Cal
Poly Pomona, said that hunger issues are affecting
campuses all over the state.
“I have had friends that have literally been on
the verge of homelessness and I have had other
friends who decided not to go to college for this
reason because of the increases,” Lozano said.
“The tuition costs are just going to get higher and
higher and it won’t stop.”
CSU Board members and California govern-ment
offi cials have been at odds over the proposed
budget for 2018-19. While the Board of Trustees
requested $263 million, Governor Jerry Brown’s
budget proposal allocated $92 million to the CSU.
The more than $100 million gap according
to White is the reason why tuition increase is
needed.
Board member Romey Sabalius proposed to
decrease tuition by two percent if the state gov-ernment
has a surplus.
“It would give our government legislatures a
clear idea and vision of how to budget their assets
and allocations to the CSU,” Sabalius said. “It
would send a clear message on where the board
the trustees lie.”
While the jockeying over the CSU budget con-tinues
at the capitol in Sacramento, sociology
professor Kevin Wehr of Sacramento State, says
that he had to put in a basic needs notice in his
syllabus for students who are effected by food
insecurity or homelessness.
“I felt I had to put this notice in because of
what I have seen in the classroom,” Wehr said. “I
had a brilliant student whose engagement fell off
because he was falling asleep in class. It turned
out that he was having trouble feeding himself.”
Though tuition increase seems to be on the
horizon, a delay in the vote has allowed the CSU to
fi nalize its budget before making a fi nal decision.
“We are extremely glad that the board is
choosing to put off its vote,” Wehr said. “But what
we should really be talking about is a tuition cut,
not a tuition increase.”
ETHAN HANSON/ THE SUNDIAL
The CSU Board of Trustees met in Long Beach on Jan. 30.
ETHAN HANSON
SPORTS EDITOR
t @ETHANAHANSON